Background
He was born in Bodø and died in Oslo.
journalist athletics competitor
He was born in Bodø and died in Oslo.
When Norwegian athletics was split in a bourgeois camp and a Workers" Confederation of Sports, Helgesen eventually chose to move to the workers" club IF Rollo.
He represented the sports club Bodø og Omegns IF, then IK Tjalve after moving to Oslo. This was a Norwegian record at the time. At the 1924 Summer Olympics he finished eighth in the high jump final with a jump of 1.83 metres.
Besides active sports he was sports editor of Arbeiderbladet from 1928 to 1973.
He was also a jury member for awarding the.
He was a board member of the Norwegian Athletics Association from 1945 through 1948.